Precept vs Adage - What's the difference?
precept | adage |
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
* 2006 : ,
** I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept .
* 1891 :
** He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts , they advanced to high civilization.
(legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use
An old saying, which has been overused or considered a ; a trite maxim
As nouns the difference between precept and adage
is that precept is a rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct while adage is an old saying, which has obtained credit by long use.As a verb precept
is to teach by precepts.precept
English
(wikipedia precept)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Gift of Language
Anagrams
* ----adage
English
(wikipedia adage)Noun
(en noun)- “Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage ” (Lady MacBeth)